Gender in Sports--Title IX

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As I start to research about gender barriers in sports, I kept coming across something called Title IX, so I decided to research on it. It is a law that was put into place to allow gender equality in sports in a numerous amount of different aspects. It basically states that, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance". Through this law, rules such as males and females having an equal amount of sports teams at a school, as well as offering equal salary pay came into effect, scholarship pay, and not discriminating against women that are pregnant. When looking at this, I began to think how this was a monumental step for gender issues being solved in sports. By having a law put in place, these gender issues will start to be taken care of. However, I still realized that the stereotypes will continue because you can't put a law on Freedom of Speech and what people can still say about different races. But, you are protected under Title IX even if you do not experience sex discrimination directly from a person.
Maybe just maybe, this would be a step towards eliminating stereotypes like; "you run like a girl", and such. This recently was aired on a PSA during the Superbowl regarding how girls have the same privileges to play sports just as equally as boys. From remembering this commercial while writing this, I start to wonder how the way media portrays the different genders in sports and how that can play an affect on their performance as well because they will feel all sorts of different pressures.
As society knows, boys grow up typically surrounded by the sports element, being immersed in playing multiple sports to find their strengths, and are taught to be aggressive. On the other hand, girls are shown how to be gentle and caring, not aggressive like boys are in sports. From this, I decided that my research now is going to focus on how the different genders are portrayed in the media of professional sports and focus from there.
The source that I pulled these facts form was The National Center of Education Statistics. I knew that this was credible to use because it is a government (.gov) based organization. In addition, I was able to trust it because it had source listed after each fact if you wanted to get additional info. Also, it had the related figures and sources listed at the bottom that gave me the sources on where to find the linked info if I needed to. The text's purpose was to provide me with some quick and important facts on Title IX and what it entailed and it did just that which in turn helped achieved my purpose for this portion of my project as well. As I was thinking about using this source, I knew that it was useful to have because all of the info was backed up and it was coming from all reliable sources.

The link to this source can be found here: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=93. 
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